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Starting Your Own Business? What you should do before writing your Business Plan

This workshop will focus on the key steps you need to consider in organizing your business concept to creating a Business Plan. Your business concept is the fundamental idea behind your plan. Before investing your time to writing a Business Plan you need to validate the viability of your business concept. Your business model, plan, vision, and your mission are developed based on your concept. In this workshop we will discuss the following: -Defining your business concept -Ways to validation idea to testing your concept -Leverage competitive tools to gaining deeper insights -Purpose and structure of a Business Plan -Role and purpose of your mentors -Next steps...

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Intellectual property Copyrights, Patents, & Trademarks

Do you wonder which source you should use to protect your Intellectual Property (name, inventions, and ideas)? If so, this workshop is just right for you. Copyright, Patents and Trademarks are our resource for protection, but sometimes it is difficult to navigate through it. In this fun and informative session, you will learn : -Who you need to talk to. -What you need to protect. -Where you need to go for your Intellectual Property Strategies (Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks) that will get you headed in the right direction fast. Presenter: Astrid Laws Gulley is a certified SCORE mentor and presenter.

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Women-Owned Small Business Certification Workshop

The SBA’ WOSB Certification program helps to provide a level playing field for women business owners, the government limits competition for certain contracts to businesses that participate in the Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Contracting program. These contracts are for specific industries where WOSBs are under represented. Some contracts are restricted further to economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses (EDWOSBs). SBA maintains a list of those eligible industries and their NAICS codes. Joining the WOSB Federal Contracting Program makes a business eligible to compete for federal contracts set aside for the program. Firms can still compete for contract awards under other socio-economic programs...

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2023 Texas Pinners Conference and Expo

Get ready to be inspired and immersed in the world of creativity at the highly anticipated Texas Pinners Conference. This two-day event, hosted at the renowned Will Rogers Memorial Center, is a dream come true for Pinterest enthusiasts. The Pinners Conference is a top-rated Pinterest-inspired event that brings together individuals passionate about creativity and DIY projects. It is a conference and expo where attendees can explore various areas such as home décor, crafts, cooking, beauty, fashion, and more. The conference offers various classes, workshops, and demonstrations led by industry experts, influencers, and professionals in their respective fields. Participants can learn new...

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2023 Texas Pinners Conference and Expo

Get ready to be inspired and immersed in the world of creativity at the highly anticipated Texas Pinners Conference. This two-day event, hosted at the renowned Will Rogers Memorial Center, is a dream come true for Pinterest enthusiasts. The Pinners Conference is a top-rated Pinterest-inspired event that brings together individuals passionate about creativity and DIY projects. It is a conference and expo where attendees can explore various areas such as home décor, crafts, cooking, beauty, fashion, and more. The conference offers various classes, workshops, and demonstrations led by industry experts, influencers, and professionals in their respective fields. Participants can learn new...

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Taxes for Small Businesses

This webinar is designed to give an overview of a variety of Tax Topics relevant to small business owners. The focus of this webinar is going to be Income and Payroll taxes. Topics to be covered include: 1. Entity choice including tax fillings 2. Retirement planning – type of plans and how they work 3. The importance of accounting and bookkeeping 4. Payroll tax, including ERC 5. Sales tax 6. Independent contractors vs. employees 7. Cryptocurrency 8. ...

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How to Write a Focused Business Plan

In this workshop you will gain understanding why we plan and the three questions that will determine success or failure. We'll also learn key items like. How do I price? What will this cost? and What is my financial return? We will cover: The concept of planning for today and the future The three fundamental questions that determine everything else Are you writing a novel or a short story? What will it cost me to get started What are my monthly costs How...

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SBA 8(a) program

What you will learn: Provide fundamental information on the 8(a) Business Development program Benefits of being an 8(a) certified entity Explain the basics you need to register in the 8(a) Business Development program Resources available for 8(a) registration assistance. Meet the presenter: James R. (Jim Bob) Rollins currently works as a Procurement Counselor for the University of Texas at Arlington Cross Timbers APEX Accelerator. He is a native of Texas and veteran. He began a career with the Procurement Technical Assistance Program as a Part-Time Procurement Counselor, Senior Procurement Counselor, and Director at the Angelina College Procurement Assistance Center, until it was closed by Angelina College...

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The Profit Playbook

Who Should Attend: anyone with a business or those planning to start a business. What You Will Learn: What you should be doing right now to get a stampede of new customers that pay, stay, and refer. The most expensive mistakes business owners are making and how to avoid them completely. How to structure your business in a way where you attract your best customers and repel the folks you don’t want to work with. How to design your business to make over 7-figures ($1,000,000+) in revenue....

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Lending for New Small Businesses

Not all lenders provide the same services. You will want to narrow your search to those that offer the type of financing you are looking for and will be likely to approve your loan application based upon you and your business creditworthiness. Ryan will discuss the factors that determine creditworthiness. Ryan Melendez serves as the Assistant Vice President, and Market Leader for BB&T at the Crestview Banking Centers. His career has included experience in Small Business lending at the branch and district level for IBC Bank. He has 15 years of experience in retail banking and small business lending, where he...